"When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Air Quotes #Breathe Quotes #Ceremony Quotes

“Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.”

Source : Robert Collyer (1871). “The life that now is, sermons”, p.303
“My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world. Some of the greatest inspirations in my life have been black Americans. And I just wanted to say thank you. They've been a huge inspiration, to myself and this country.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)”
“Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.”
“For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.”
“I think you can have a science of the taste of chicken soup, or the taste of Chateau Latour. My point is only that knowing this science alone will not tell you what chicken soup or Chateau Latour tastes like.”
“In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.”
“Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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